Collection search - View Looking North Through Robeson Channel

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View Looking North Through Robeson Channel

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Date:

24-25 August 1875

Reference:

Box number: A595/X1

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2834009

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Thomas Mitchell fonds

View Looking North Through Robeson Channel
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Date(s):

24-25 August 1875

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over pencil with opaque white on wove paper
Support 15.800 x 102.800 cm

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no language

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This image is composed of 2 sheets glued together. The left sheet (C-27815) is a watercolour on folio 13 verso. The right sheet (C-27831) is a watercolour on folio 14 recto, both being in an album with 23 folios.

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Artist: Mitchell, Thomas, 1833?-1924

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General note:

Removed from: Album.: Sketches made during the Voyage of the Discovery and Alert to the Polar Sea - 1875-6. Under the Command of Capt. Sir George S. Nares K.C.B. F.R.S. Sailed from Portsmouth 29 May 1975. Arrived Valentia (Ireland) 27 Oct. 1876.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Out there is Somewhere: The Arctic in Pictures. Curators: Casandra Getty & Peter White, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario; 2002.03.22-2002.05.27
Further Venue: Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; 2002.09.06-2002.11.03, Exhibition Title: The Light that Fills the World. Curator: René Picard, Canadian Embassy Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; 1989.09.19-1990.01.15

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and black ink, on album page [removed] from left to right: Grants Land. [ink arrow upwards] Just round this cape / "Alert" wintered Cape Lupton [2 ink arrows upwards] / Thank God Harbour / where Capt. Hall in The "Polaris" wintered / Sketched when crossing from Bessels Bay to Lady Franklin Sound - looking North - / Cape Tyson. [ink arrow upwards] Halls Land. Peterman Fiord. Joe Island C. Lucie Marie
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landscape

N.W.T. : Robeson Channel, 1875

Historical Events - Depicting The British Polar Expedition : 1875-1876

SUBJ. - Landscape : Depicting View Of Robeson Channel, N.W.T., 1875

Greenland
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1936-259 PIC
00013
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on access or on use for reproduction or publication.

Box [1936-259]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A595/X1 Item no. assigned by LAC 13

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00013] C-27831

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1936-259-13
Copyright: Expired.

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